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Library Essentials for Students – Information Skills for Health Blog

What is it?

The Information Skills for Health blog is an online blog created by the Health Library. It aims to help all or any of our users to develop skills to support evidence-based practice, continuous professional development (CPD), revalidation and ultimately patient care.

We post items to the blog such as:

  • Information about our resources
  • Tips and Tricks for finding the best information
  • Latest news about healthcare resources
  • Step-by-step instructions on how to use our popular resources
  • Tips on how to literature search effectively
  • Micro-learning opportunities to develop your skills

How can it help you?

You can sign-up to receive new blog items in your inbox. This blogs aims to help you to develop your skills and find the best quality information to support your work and studies.

How do you access it?

The Information Skills for Health blog is freely available online.

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Hot Topics! Get the latest evidence for health topics in the news

 Seen a health topic in the news? Want to be ready for your patient's questions? Need to know the latest evidence? Check out our Hot Topic! blog posts. We post the latest evidence from key, high quality resources such as BMJ Best Practice, Clinical Key Overviews, Oxford handbooks and more, on health topics in the news. Recent topics include: Heat stroke Diabetes - type 1 Asthma Ebola Hantavirus Endometriosis To view all the latest topics go to our Information Skills for Health blog .

Access NHS online resources from one place

 A wealth of online, health-care specific resources are available to NHS staff. You can easily and quickly access these resources from the Health Library web pages: NHS resources for UHNM staff NHS resources for North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare staff NHS resources for staff working for the ICB and GP practices in Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Why use our web pages? You'll get a list of all the resources available to you Where possible we link you straight to the NHS OpenAthens login page Institution-specific links are available if necessary You can link to help pages if you need more support Need more help? Contact the Health Library for more help accessing resources and to get the information you need.